You know, I was "missing" your cousin too! I almost posted to see what was new, but did not want to seem "weird" since he is not my cousin too! LOL. Remember, he has those headaches, so that may be keeping him away from the keyboard. I would not worry yet. Give him some more time. He seems so happy to be reunited with you, I am sure there is some reason that he has not responded. Perhaps the person that translates for him is on vacation.

August is a traditional month for vacations in Italy( or at least it used to be.) Businesses closed and cities emptied out and everyone went home to visit family or to a resort. We all have been following your cousin's messages. I'm sure you'll hear from him soon.

Hello Poipuo4, well today makes three weeks that I haven't had any contact with him. I hope he and his family are well. I sit and wait and wait but nothing. I hope you cousin helps you in you search. Good luck to you.

Thanks, Chuck. I am so excited, I could burst. LOL. I even re-read your letters from your cousin to see how one of these relationships evolve. LOL. I really think that you should not worry about three weeks passing. It is very possible that the headaches are keeping him away from writing. Also, he may be busy researching and has nothing to report. He seems truly sincere in his interest in your family. I just found out that my cousin studied English for 4 weeks. I have studied Italian for 10 weeks, so together...well, we are in big trouble. LOL.

Hi Poipuo4, I know exactly how you feel, the emotion is so much to handle. There are so many questions you want to ask. I am sure you will be able to converse with you cousin just fine. Yes my cousin did sound sincere didn't he. I just hope he and his family are not ill. Please let all of us know how things go with you cousin. We all all intersted, I know I am.

My cousin lives in Calabria. It looks like our family was very strict about following naming traditions. When she told me the names of her grandfather, ggf, and great aunts and uncles, many were the same names on my branch. This has led me to believe that my ggf and her ggf were brothers! We both knew that our ggfs had a brother Giacomo. I was only able to trace one sibling of my ggf so far. What a stroke of luck that the one sibling I found, was a known sibling to my new cousin! Our ggfs named their first born sons and daughters the same names, indicating that they descended from the same line. I think city hall was closed or something, so her father has not found out yet what ever happened to my ggf. He either died or disappeared in 1911, no trace. But take comfort in this: my cousin told me that she was going to be out of town for a few weeks and that she would not be able to keep up this pace of writing every day with work. I am glad she told me that up front because as you know, in these first days of writing, you want to know everything and make up for 100 yrs. of lost time. This may be what is going on with your situation, but your cousin did not tell you that he would be away or be unable to write regularly.

It sounds like you are making some headway. Good luck with your research. It was the same in my family also. the name game was played the same. It can be confusing at times to know exactly who is who, and who belongs to who.

It was nice to let you know about not being able to keep up the writing pace. Atleat you will not be in the same boat I am in.

Sorry to hijack your post, Chuck, but this is the easiest place for you to find it. Today my cousin wrote to me. Her father went to the city hall and CONFIRMED in the records that her ggf and my ggf were brothers and that Giacomo was a brother too. I am so thrilled with this news. I had my theories, and it is so satisfying to have them confirmed. Now, devo imparare l'italiano! (I must learn Italian!) I can read it generally, but it is so difficult to write it and the course offerings for a working person at night are slim in my community. I have one option which I have to take a test to get into the class. I may start studying.

Will they send you a copy of the records? I like having paper in my hands that show the connections but then thats me.....

I called Gerardo's brother last night, its a long story how I know he lives in Boston. When I explained that I haven't received anything for three weeks his only responce was that maybe he has no information for me and therefore no communication was necessary. He said that when he speaks to Gerardo, he will let him know I haven't heard from him in a long time.

I told his brother Nunzio that I would mail the current information I have on the family to him today.

Hello Elizabeth, I too hope everything with my cousin and his family are OK. I ,mailed some information about our family to him today. I has been hard on my nerves waiting to hear from him. Maybe I will try to go with that old saying "good things happen to those who wait" It had to do that though.

An Italian novel for kids called "La Freccia Azzurra" (The Blue Arrow) says that all the children in the world wait for Christmas Eve to get presents from Santa Clause, but Italian kids are the luckiest in the world because they get presents again on the 6th of January by the Befana.Who is the Befan...

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